Night and Day (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Stoppard
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1970’s
- Setting: Kambabwe, a fictional former British colony in Africa
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama
- Subjects: Values, 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Journalism or journalists, Sex or sexuality, Revolutions, Adultery, Duty, Idealism
- Locales: Kambabwe, Africa
Characters Discussed
Ruth Carson, the attractive, alcoholic wife of Geoffrey Carson. Ruth’s ironic asides reveal her biting wit and her discomfort with her life in this turbulent African country. On one visit to London to arrange for her son’s schooling, she had a brief affair with Dick Wagner. Now that he has appeared in her living room, her feelings are ambiguous; she resents any feeling he may have that she is in any way obligated to him.
Dick Wagner, a fortyish Australian newspaper reporter working for a large London paper. Wagner is still interested in Ruth, but...
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